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Union Organizing
A union for political campaign workers?
Campaign Workers Guild signs its first Oregon contract with state representative Teresa Alonso Leon.
Hawthorne Burgerville becomes the third to formally unionize
Meanwhile, Burgerville has agreed to no tangible improvements since contract bargaining began in May.
OHSU fights effort by grad student researchers to unionize
They work over 50 hours a week doing lab research, but OHSU says they're students, not workers.
Workers vote to unionize at Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare
About 270 mental health and addiction recovery workers unionized with Oregon AFSCME in a series of elections held in October and November.
Multnomah County is opposing a union effort by on-call and temp workers
Just because managers might categorize workers as "temp" or "on-call" doesn't make that accurate.
Bus drivers unionize at Columbia County’s CC Rider
Low pay is the biggest issue for drivers who provide bus service between Clatskanie, Rainier, St. Helens, Scappoose, and Vernonia.
OHSU grad students unionize with AFSCME
Union authorization cards signed by a majority of the 250 students were submitted Aug. 29.
North coast bus drivers unionize
A group of 20 underpaid drivers and mechanics in Astoria and Warrenton Oregon have joined ATU Local 757.
Chain-owned Clackamas pet hospital votes narrowly to unionize
After Mars Petcare swallows up giant VCA chain, workers vote to join ILWU.
Tillamook Cheese maintenance techs go non-union
About 250 production workers at the facility continue to be represented by Teamsters Local 58.
At Providence Milwaukie hospital, support workers go union
Workers voted 92-54 to join SEIU Local 49.
Faculty unionize at OSU and OIT
Oregon’s labor movement just grew by 2,500 new members.
Unionization is sweeping the media
A wave of worker organizing is taking place in print and online media in search of greater job security.
Machinists win toehold at Boeing South Carolina plant
South Carolina is the least-unionized state in the nation, with just 2.6 percent of workers in a union, and its governor wants to keep it that way.
What did New Seasons pay union busters? We’ll have to wait another year to find out
One worker wanted to know why fees New Seasons paid to a union avoidance consultant hadn't been disclosed, as required by federal law. So he called the union-buster.
At Outside In, an overwhelming vote to unionize
A union campaign that began in the wake of a stabbing ended with a 88 to 18 vote for AFSCME.
Gladstone Burgerville becomes the second store to vote in union
The vote was 17 to 5 to unionize with the Burgerville Workers Union, which is affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Yes, welders can unionize at Precision Castparts, NLRB rules
The case went all the way to Washington, DC, and back, along the way overturning a major Obama-era NLRB ruling.
A Burgerville store goes union — officially
The Burgerville at 92nd and Powell may be the nation’s first officially unionized fast food union.
Burgerville Workers Union expects to call for a union election
If a majority votes yes at the 92nd and Powell location, it could be the nation's first official union at a fast food chain.
